Maxwell Hall — Society is fractured. These innovators at Davos are fixing it

Social entrepreneurship.

The post seems to view the social application of technology as the "solution." Apparently, they really don't get it. "It" is not just about making life "better" but rather making life meaningful. The issue is overcoming alienation by providing integration.

Capitalism is based on alienation. Society ism fracture because individuals are fractured rather than being integrated personally and socially.

So the solution involves addressing the paradoxes of liberalism. Many of these paradoxes arise from economic liberalism in a neoliberal global regime, since neoliberalism is a political theory holding that economic liberalism is prior to social and political liberalism because "trickle down" and TINA (there is no alternative).

Social entrepreneurship is contributory to making life "better" from the standpoint of economics but it doesn't address the psychological and sociological issues that underly and cannot be covered by a veneer of rising living standards that are unevenly distributed by "trickle down."

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Society is fractured. These innovators at Davos are fixing it
Maxwell Hall | Media Lead, Broadcast and Programming, World Economic Forum Geneva

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen — Social Entrepreneurship Enters the Mainstream

Once a niche concept at the intersection of business and development, “social entrepreneurship” is now mainstream. A social entrepreneur, according to Ashoka founder Bill Draper, who coined the term in 1980, is a person with system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. A social enterprise is one that deliberately expands access to goods, services, income, and employment opportunities for vulnerable populations as part of its core business while seeking return on investment. Social entrepreneurship is increasingly appealing to people, and the idea of using a MBA degree to do good while doing well has grown in popularity on campuses and in businesses around the glob….

"Find a need and fill it" versus "manufacture a want and supply it."

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Social Entrepreneurship Enters the Mainstream
Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen